The Globe. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 561, 5 April 1876, Page 2

The Globe. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency,') LATEST FROM EUROPE AND A.T T STRALIA. [By Submarine Cable.] THE QUEEN. London, April 3. The Queen has proceeded on her Continental tour, and has arrived at Baden, attended by Earl Derby. HERZEGOVINA. London, April 3. There is a suspension of armed force in Herzegovina, and Turkey has declared a general amnesty. FINANCIAL. London, April 3. There is a panic in Foreign and Eastern funds, in consequence of the postponed payment of the April coupons till July. TITLE BILL. London, April 3. On the second reading of the Title Bill in the House of Lords, Lord Shaftesbury is to move that an address be presented to the Queen against assuming the title of Empress of India, THE MAIL. London, April 3. The City of San Francisco arrived at San Francisco to-day. AUSTRALIA, Sydney, April 5. The s.s, Otago arrived here yesterday morning. Case brandy firm. Sales, 80s. Melbourne, April J. In the case Learmontli v Bailey, a juryman states he had been offered £250 not to agree to a verdict. Brisbane, April 5. The Inspector of Native Police has been arrested for flogging a native boy to death, INTERPIiOVINOIAL. Auckland, April 4. In the Supreme Court, in the Newton assault case, Baird and Mcllroy received a sentence of three years each ; Donaldson got twelve and Hodge nine months. The last two named called witnesses to character. The Maori murder case is to come on to-morrow. Mr Barstow, B, M., delivered judgment in Seccombe’s, brewer’s, case to-day. It occupied nearly a column of print. The Magistrate fined defendant £4O and cost of counsel. The words of the judgment are—“ I find that the defendant, holding no brewer’s license under any such Act or Ordinance in force in any province, i.e., Provincial Act or Ordinance, has been guilty of a breach of the Licensing Act, and must be convicted accordingly ; the real intention of tenth tion of 1874 Act being that a brewer holding a provincial brewer’s license, should there be such thing in any province, would not in addition thereto require a wholesale license ; the eleventh section enacting that whether he held a brewer’s or wholesale license under the licensing laws, he nevertheless must also be licensed under the Distillery Act.’’ A new schooner has arrived from Mahurangi, where she was built by Mr Malcolm Darrach, for Messrs Cuff and Graham, Christchurch. She is a fine fore-and-after, 76 tons register. She will load here, and leave for the South in about ten days. Grahamstown, April 4,

A fire broke out at half-past two this morning, and destroyed a building at the corner of Pollen and Mary streets, Khortland, including Congregational chapel, Wilson’s drapery store and private house, French’s grocery store, Steen’s, bootmaker, Miss Grey (late Bishop’s) photographic gallery, Cribbles, tobacconist; Ashman, tailor ; Jefferson, bookseller. The fire is supposed to have originated in the photographic gallery. The private dwellings in Mary street were saved by dint of strenuous exertions, although some of them were damaged. The losses to some are very serious, Gribbles, Steen, and Ashman having lost everything, and being uninsured. The insurances, as far as known, are—Wilson, £IOOO, in the Standard, on the stock (mostly saved); £SOO, on the stock, in the National; Congregational church, £2OO, in the National ; Jefferson, £SOO, in the Victoria, This was the most destructive fire that has visited the Thames. All were new buildings. Graham,stown, April 5. The following are the losses of the Insurance Companies by the Shortland fire : Standard, £IOOO ; National, £7OO ; Victoria, £560 ; South British, £BOO. Napier, April 4.

The Governor, accompanied by the Minister of Justice* left at eleven this morning for

Gisborne, Tauranga, and Auckland. They have been well received here, and are understood to be favourably impressed with the place. The Harbor Board have made final arrangements with the Bank of Australasia for floating the harbor works loan. The question as to timber is deferred to a future meeting A letter from the chairman of the Auckland Harbor Board, offering to furnish any information in his possession, recommends totara in preference to jarrah, owing to the cost of the latter and the difficulty of getting the genuine article, The secretary was instructed to convey the thanks of the Napier Board to Captain Daldy, Wellington, April 4. Another long batch of correspondence re Auckland and its finances will be published in the Times to-morrow. Attached to a memo from Mr Reader Wood, explaining why he need go to Wellington, is a memorandum of the probable receipts and expenditure of Auckland for eight months, from February Ist to September 30th, 1876, in which he sets down the receipts at £60,000 and the expenditure at £72,000. The most important document in the series is a memo from Hon Major Atkinson, in which he says the arrangement referred to by Sir G. Grey and Mr Wood (with regard to assisting Auckland) amounted simply to this, That I agreed to ask the House to authorise the Colonial Treasurer to advance £60,000 in aid of the Provincial revenue, if such revenue should prove insufficient to meet the necessary charges of government. No definite sura was ever allotted or ever intended to be allotted to the province which it had a right to claim. The arrangement was to supplement the revenue to the extent ot £60,000 if necessary. The terms of the fifth section of the Provincial Appropriation Extension Act, which were not {objected to by any Auckland member that I am aware of, show this clearly. The amount of the limit of the advance, viz, £60,000, was arrived at in this way: Mr Wood estimated the probable revenue at about twentyfive thousand, which included ten thousand, the unexpended balance of the forty thousand granted to Auckland under the Provincial Public Works Advances Act, 1874, so that from capitation and special allowances and provincial revenue proper he only estimated to receive fifteen thousand. His expenditure was estimated at seventyfive thousand, including £13,500 for education, and ten thousand for public works, leaving a deficiency of fifty thousand, which I agreed to ask authority to advance. Before this was done, however, Mr Wood told me that he had omitted any money for expenditure upon necesEary works upon goldfields, which would probably require five thousand, and that ten thousand would be better still. I replied—“ Very well; it will be safer to have a margin in case of accident. I will therefore ask for sixty thousand instead of fifty thousand.” The remainder of the memo goes to show that it is evident the deficiency complained of, if it occurs, will be caused, not through any falling off in revenue, but from a large increase of the estimated expenditure, such as education, put down at fifteen thousand, while only thirteen thousand five hundred was originally asked for it ; and for public works, which were estimated at ten thousand, twelve thousand are now asked. Port Chalmers, April 4. Sailed—Ship Nelson, for London, with a full cargo of wool and grain ; also sixty-two passengers. Invercargill, April 4. The opening of the box of salmon ova was completed yesterday. The Curator is of opinion, at a rough estimate, that 10,000 of the ova are alive JJ Dunedin, April 5. The City Council has fixed the assessment for the ensuing year at Is 3d in the £, The total revenue of the Harbour Board for the past year is £39,624; the total expenditure £22,835. In the case of Donnelly v Sullivan, the latter of whom was the gatekeeper at the race meeting, and refused to admit the representative of the Guardian, contrary to the arrangement under which the gates were sold; it was ruled that the defendant should pay the costs, and refund the shilling demanded and paid by the reporter for admission to the grounds. At the meeting of the Harbour Board, the Superintendent brought under the notice of the Board the departure of the steamer Colima without entering Otago Heads, His impression was that the steamer ought to have been brought in; ics not doing so would do the port of Otago a deal of harm, and the northern ports would make the most of the matter. Ultimately a Commission was appointed to inquire into the circumstance of the departure of the Colima, and the condition of the Otago Harbour in reference thereto,